This year’s new Borderlands game may not stay last gen-only forever, as Gearbox hints it may come to Xbox One and PS4.

‘All the Borderlands 2 players are playing on those consoles. That’s the choice they’ve got. So we want to reward those guys’, said 2K Australia’s Tony Lawrence to gamereactorTV.

‘If fans say ‘hey, we’d really like this on a next-gen console’, well, we’ll think about that, but right now we’re concentrating on the consoles we know’.

‘The vast majority of our fans still have their Xbox 360. The other thing is it’s the middle game in a trilogy. Moving it on to next gen and requiring people to buy new hardware to play the middle entry in a trilogy feels a little disingenuous and we sort of want to respect that’, added Gearbox’s Matt Armstrong.

‘As we said, one day maybe, I don’t know. We’ll think about that, see how people react to the game, how much fun they have and whether or not everyone moves on to the next gen fully next year. For now we’re pretty happy with our choice and I think people are going to be to.’

As soon as it was announced The Pre-Sequel raised eyebrows for not being on both generations of consoles, but if it is a hit when it’s released this October it’ll be the only last gen-only sequel that has been this year – with 2014 GRID Autosport and 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil both under-performing.

Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford has previously indicated it could be several years before the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 audience is big enough to support a proper Borderlands 3, but well… we’ll just have to wait and see.